Beauty and Sorrow: A Real Hillary

Author: Li Wei
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Publish Date: 2007-05-01
Features: Hillary is not a naturally beautiful person. When she was not yet skilled in dressing, she was mocked as a "country bumpkin who couldn't dress properly in the middle." However, the specially hired image consultants and PR firms helped this unassuming girl from the Chicago suburbs become increasingly charming. Youth, carefree, confidence, and elegance—these are her external qualities. Hillary's beauty lies more in her inner self: political insight, high intelligence, ambition, and public influence. Her wisdom and courage are enough to make any male chauvinist step back; she insists on her beliefs while also being willing to listen to good advice; she can excel in her favorite professional fields but also give up her passions for the greater good; she has repeatedly called on women to speak out in all areas of society, encouraging them to break free from subservient roles, while also emphasizing the need to maintain a balance between career and family. This is her inner beauty.
Her husband is Hillary's eternal "pain." The "Arkansas pirate," handsome and witty, was actually a womanizer with a string of scandals. In August 1998, she went through a dark period in her life: she faced betrayal and lies that women are reluctant to confront, the Starr Report, which vividly described "sexual contact," made her a laughingstock in the United States and even the world, turning her into a sympathetic "drama queen" and victim. She had to sacrifice her professional passions to marry Bill in the impoverished and backward state of Arkansas; she had to choose to uphold a broken marriage when others did not understand her decision; she turned her pain into a blessing, saved her family through forgiveness, and at the same time, painstakingly built her political career.